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Google to use Carnegie Mellon University’s Anti-Fraud Program
World’s most dominant search engine website Google Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has acquired a anti-fraud and spam program developed by Carnegie Mellon University called ReCAPTCHA, which would allow them to cut down unwanted spam while it digitize copies of books. The ReCAPTCHA program works... 
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Google Launches Fast Flip News-Reading Service
Google Inc., the world’s largest search engine provider, on Monday launched an “experimental” news-reading hub called Fast Flip, which allows online users to browse news and feature stories from dozens of sources like newspapers and magazines. It will be recalled that Google earned the ire... 
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Google Increases Size of its Search Box
The world’s most popular Internet search engine Google.com has got a new facelift as the company introduced a much bigger search box on its home page (http://www.google.com). Google Inc., which is based in Mountain View, California, said that it has decided to remove the cluttered look of the search... 
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Mozilla to Release Security Update for Flash-Player
Mozilla, the maker of the popular Firefox web browser, has released on Wednesday a new security update for its flagship browser’s Flash Player to fix all the critical software vulnerabilities. For the first time in company history, Mozilla announced the release of a new security update for the flash... 
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Nokia Depends itself from Smartphone Threat
The world’s largest mobile phone maker Nokia Inc. over the weekend unveils plan to release three new Smartphones with a touchscreen features to allow the company to compete against other android phone makers like Apple and Research in Motion. The announcement came following criticisms from technology... 
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Unpatched IIS Bug, Being Exploited by Cyber-Criminals – Microsoft
US Software giant Microsoft Corp. on Friday revealed that cyber-criminals and hackers have started their attacks in one of the unpatched bug in its Internet Information Services (IIS) server software, which was earlier launched to the public in September. In a statement, Microsoft said that the flaw... 
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Public Changes for Wikipedia Entries Will Require Editorial Scrutiny
Popular website Wikipedia.org on Tuesday said that it will now require further research and proofreading to all public changes before it could be disseminated to the online public. In a statement, Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization who is in charge of the user-generated encyclopedia in the... 
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Apple Belies Outright Rejection of Google Voice for iPhone
Apple Inc. executives on Friday denied accusations of outright rejection of a program called Google Voice for its popular iPhone, saying that it has only “temporarily” blocked the application due to complications to some functions of the device. In a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission,... 
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New iPhone Apps for Wikipedia
Online giant Wikipedia has launched on Thursday a new application for the popular iPhone, which aimed to give users free online encyclopedia at the palm of their hands. With the increasing number of people using Smartphones and Apple Inc.’s iPhone, Wikipedia has decided to open its webpages to users... 
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Parents Unaware of Data Gathering Software They Use for Their Kids
A child-safety advocate over the weekend expressed fear over the growing number of parents installing leading brand software that would allow them to personally monitor what their kids are doing online, saying that these parents are “unwittingly” giving away marketing data to the software developer. In...